Note 56 — Chapter I

As the language of Hacket’s English version of Ribault was accessible to me only through Richard Hakluyt’s Divers Voyages, 1582, in which he reprinted it, I had an ungenerous suspicion that he might have substituted that date for another, he having placed the year 1498 in the margin of the page on which he first prints the alleged extract from Fabian. The only known copy of Hacket’s translation is in the British Museum, and on an appeal to that, through a transcript of it taken for Mr. John Carter-Brown, I find Ribault’s date to be 1498. [Hacket’s version as given by Hakluyt is also reprinted in B. F. French’s Hist. Coll. of Louisiana and Florida, ii. 159.—Ed.]